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Bodily Citations

Author : Ellen T. Armour
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231508646
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Bodily Citations written by Ellen T. Armour and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritual studies use Butler's work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The authors shed new light on Butler's ideas and highlight their ethical and political import. They also broaden the scope of religious studies as they bring it into conversation with feminist and queer theory. Subjects discussed include the woman's mosque movement in Cairo, the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the possibility of queer ethics, religious ritual, and biblical constructions of sexuality. Contributors include: Karen Trimble Alliaume, Lewis University; Teresa Hornsby, Drury University; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School; Christina Hutchins, Pacific School of Religion; Saba Mahmood, University of California, Berkeley; Susanne Mrozik, Mount Holyoke College; Claudia Schippert, University of Central Florida; Rebecca Schneider, Brown University; Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary

Specters of Paul

Author : Benjamin H. Dunning
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204352
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Specters of Paul written by Benjamin H. Dunning and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, early Christians found ways to exercise theological creativity and to think differently from one another as they probed the enigma of sexually differentiated bodies. In Specters of Paul, Benjamin H. Dunning explores this variety in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue. Paul articulates his vision of what it means to be human primarily by situating human beings between two poles: creation (Adam) and resurrection (Christ). But within this framework, where does one place the figure of Eve—and the difference that her female body represents? Dunning demonstrates that this dilemma impacted a range of Christian thinkers in the centuries immediately following the apostle, including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian of Carthage, and authors from the Nag Hammadi corpus. While each of these thinkers attempts to give the difference of the feminine a coherent place within a Pauline typological framework, Dunning shows that they all fail to deliver fully on the coherence that they promise. Instead, sexual difference haunts the Pauline discourse of identity and sameness as the difference that can be neither fully assimilated nor fully ejected—a conclusion with important implications not only for early Christian history but also for feminist and queer philosophy and theology.

Bodily Discursions

Author : Deborah S. Wilson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791431870
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Bodily Discursions written by Deborah S. Wilson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of feminist essays from a variety of disciplines explores the idea of the body as a site for the production of political ideologies.

Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom

Author : Gunda Werner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003827985
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom written by Gunda Werner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how Judith Butler’s work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, ‘speaking the truth’, can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theology of freedom. By starting from an analysis of power and the performative potential of gendered embodiment, freedom can be thought of as the basis of creative and critical human action and thereby implemented in theology. The chapters feature several theological-historical case studies that are representative of topics that continue to shape contemporary Catholic norms and thought. In particular, the author reflects on the 13th century with the idea of personal sin and confession, and the 19th century with a gender ideology that has led to the marginalization of difference and dissent. The book shows how Butler and Foucault can provide essential insights for Catholic theology and is valuable reading for scholars of religion, philosophy, and gender and sexuality studies.

Controversies in Body Theology

Author : Marcella Althaus-Reid
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0334041570
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Controversies in Body Theology written by Marcella Althaus-Reid and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines some of the most extreme approaches to the body that our society engages with. This book embraces the difficult and challenging areas of the body and society, as an embodied resource for the ever-expanding task of considering the nature of incarnation through the lens of body theology.

Life Under the Baobab Tree

Author : Kenneth N. Ngwa
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531502997
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Life Under the Baobab Tree written by Kenneth N. Ngwa and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as “religion” apart from its intimate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.

Reading with an "I" to the Heavens

Author : Angela Kim Harkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110251817
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Reading with an "I" to the Heavens written by Angela Kim Harkins and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary traditions, new developments in neuropsychology, and post-structuralist understandings of the embodied subject. The thesis of this book is that the ritualized reading of reports describing visionary experiences written in the first person "I" had the potential to create within the ancient reader the subjectivity of a visionary which can then predispose him to have a religious experience. This study examines how references to the body and the strategic arousal of emotions could have functioned within a practice of performative reading to engender a religious experience of ascent. In so doing, this book offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.

California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs

Author : California (State).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 1 Court of Appeal Case(s): F012948

Searching for the Body

Author : Rae Erin Dachille
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556314
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Searching for the Body written by Rae Erin Dachille and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. The discussion between Ngorchen Künga Zangpo and Khédrupjé Gélek Pelzangpo concerned the mechanics of this tantric ritual practice, known as body mandala, as well as the most reliable sources to follow in performing it. As representatives of the Sakya and emerging Geluk traditions respectively, these authors spoke for communities of Buddhist practitioners vying for patronage and prestige in an evolving Tibetan scholastic culture. Their debate witnessed clashes between imagination and deception, continuity and rupture, and tradition and innovation. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of the body mandala debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embodiment occurring across the disciplines today. Rae Erin Dachille explores how Ngorchen and Khédrup used citational practice as a tool for making meaning, arguing that their texts reveal a deep connection between ritual mechanics and interpretive practice. She contends that this debate addresses strikingly contemporary issues surrounding interpretation, intertextuality, creativity, essentialism, and naturalness. Buddhist ideas about the construction of meaning and the body offer new ways of understanding representation, which Dachille illuminates in an epilogue that considers Glenn Ligon’s engagement with Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography. By placing Buddhist thought in dialogue with contemporary artistic practice and cultural critique, Searching for the Body offers vital new perspectives on the transformative potential of representations in defining and transcending the human.

Calvin and the Resignification of the World

Author : Michelle Chaplin Sanchez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473040
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Calvin and the Resignification of the World written by Michelle Chaplin Sanchez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first extended study of Calvin's 1559 Institutio in conversation with critical theorists of religion, modernity, sovereignty, and political theology.

The Body in the Mind

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617784X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Mind written by Mark Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

Her Preaching Body

Author : Amy Peed McCullough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498291635
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Her Preaching Body written by Amy Peed McCullough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preacher’s body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life. Female preachers, engaged in a task not long their own, know well the added attention directed to their physicality. They can experience ordinary decisions about attire, accessories, hairstyles, and movement as complex, and occasionally precarious, choices around how to bring flesh to their sermons. They can also experience the extraordinary power of their bodies, when materiality weighs in on the message. McCullough explores the every-Sunday bodily decisions of contemporary female preachers, with an eye to uncovering the meanings about body, preaching, and God alive underneath. Ultimately, she argues for a renewed understanding of embodiment, in which one’s living body, inescapably intertwined with her preaching, becomes the avenue for greater knowledge about how to preach and deeper insight into the faith professed.

The Body in Asia

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459660
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book The Body in Asia written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the ‘body in Asia’ a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

The Body and Desire

Author : Raphael A. Cadenhead
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297962
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Body and Desire written by Raphael A. Cadenhead and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life by examining within the context of his theological commitments his evolving attitudes on what we now call gender, sex, and sexuality. Exploring Gregory’s understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation for the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael A. Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

Author : Bryan S Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136903313
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Body Studies written by Bryan S Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural sociology, philosophy and anthropology. A wide range of case studies, which include cosmetics, diet, organ transplants, racial bodies, masculinity and sexuality, eating disorders, religion and the sacred body, and disability, are used to appraise these different perspectives. In addition, this Handbook explores various epistemological approaches to the basic question: what is a body? It also offers a strongly themed range of chapters on empirical topics that are organized around religion, medicine, gender, technology and consumption. It also contributes to the debate over the globalization of the body: how have military technology, modern medicine, sport and consumption led to this contemporary obsession with matters corporeal? The Handbook’s clear, direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences, particularly for those studying medical sociology, gender studies, sports studies, disability studies, social gerontology, or the sociology of religion. It will serve to consolidate the new field of body studies.

Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices

Author : Anna Fedele
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857452088
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices written by Anna Fedele and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i.e., related to the soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (i.e., related to the body). However, recent developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to universalist conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in "body" and "soul" losing the reassuring solid contours they had in the past. Yet, in "Western culture," the body–soul duality is alive, not least in academic and media discourses. This volume pursues the ongoing debates and discusses the importance of the body and how it is perceived in contemporary religious faith: what happens when "body" and "soul" are un-separated entities? Is it possible, even for anthropologists and ethnographers, to escape from "natural dualism"? The contributors here present research in novel empirical contexts, the benefits and limits of the old dichotomy are discussed, and new theoretical strategies proposed.

Philo's Scriptures: Citations from the Prophets and Writings

Author : Naomi Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422899
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Philo's Scriptures: Citations from the Prophets and Writings written by Naomi Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philo’s rare citations from the Prophets and Writings shed light on the nature of his sources, and the specific quotations from the Prophets provide evidence for the existence, already in the 1st century CE, of an important traditional Haftarah Cycle.